If there’s one thing we should know about Michael Myers after 40 years and 11 Halloween movies it’s that this boogeyman never really dies. You can shoot him in the head, electrify him, or burn him to a crisp. None of it matters. There’s always another sequel, another chance to slash and stab his way through the suburbs come October 31, and another teenage girl to terrorize.
But is it possible that the new Halloween 2018 movie, which picks up where the original John Carpenter-directed film left off, actually kills Michael Myers once and for all? Here’s what you need to know about Halloween’s ending, and what it means for the horror movie franchise.
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Warning: Halloween (2018) spoilers below.
The new Halloween hinges on a simple premise: Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) never got over the events of the original film. Instead, she spent her entire life preparing for the return of Michael Myers. She turned her entire home into a weapon and even forced her daughter to train until social services showed up and took her away.
Everyone thinks Laurie is crazy, but when Michael Myers escapes during a prison transfer gone wrong (because of course it went wrong), it’s up to Laurie to save her estranged family and take out the boogeyman once and for all. Thankfully, Laurie’s entire house is basically a giant trap for the supernatural serial killer. There’s even a panic room in the basement stocked full of guns and accessible via an opening hidden under a kitchen island.
The rest of the home is also designed with Michael Myers in mind. Each doorway has built-in metal barriers that drop down at the press of a button, and there’s a thrilling scene near the end of the film where Laurie hunts a wounded Michael through the house, sectioning off rooms as she clears them until she finally confronts her tormentor in a spooky room full of mannequins she used for target practice.
Eventually, Michael Myers makes his way down to the basement, tearing that kitchen island off its hinges so he can get at Laurie’s daughter and teenage granddaughter. All three generations of Strode girls jump into action, shooting and stabbing at Michael so he falls down the basement stairs as they escape up to the kitchen.
It’s at this point that we get our final twist. With the press of a button, metal bars slide across the now-open basement entry, trapping Michael inside. Laurie then activates gas pipes throughout the house before throwing a match down into the basement, quickly enveloping Michael in flames before the entire house burns down.
We never see Michael Myers actually burn to a crisp and die. He simply disappears into the flames as Laurie and her family escape from the burning building. The films final shot shows all three women sitting in the back of pickup truck that happened to drive by, leaning against each other in exhaustion as the granddaughter still clutches a bloody kitchen knife in her hand.
We don’t really know, though if history is any indication the answer is no. Then again, franchise creator John Carpenter originally intended to kill off the character with Halloween II, which also ends with Michael being lit on fire. The third movie in the franchise pivoted to an anthology, ditching Michael entirely for witchcraft and evil robots (yes, seriously), before Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers brought back the original villain under a new director and writer.
Basically, even though John Carpenter wanted to kill Michael Myers, that didn’t stop the studio from pumping out almost a dozen more movies over the past 40 years. But this new movie, which wipes the Halloween canon clean except for the original Carpenter film, might be able to finally right that wrong.
If there was ever a chance to kill Michael Myers once and for all, it’s right now in almost the exact same way he was supposed to die back in 1981’s Halloween II. Then again, if this new Halloween is a hit we might end up with 40 more years of Michael. After all, the only thing scarier than an unstoppable serial killer is Hollywood greed.
Correction 1/11/19: An earlier version of this article misstated the type of vehicle the main characters escaped in at the end of the film.
Halloween's Michael Myers is infamous for returning over and over again on Halloween to slay his family and a variety of other victims in his path. Sometimes, he sustains injuries that no human being could ever sustain at the end of one movie, only to reappear in another film a few years down the road. So what is the deal? Is Michael Myers an immortal? Horror Enthusiast analyzes some of the most key points in revealed throughout the Halloween franchise which explain Michael's never-ending killing cycle!
Dr Loomis describes the first time he saw Michael Myers as essentially meeting the devil himself. He admits that he felt Michael was savable, however, after 8 years of trying to mentally repair Michael, he gave up and began trying to keep him locked up. Loomis describes Michael Myers as pure evil. Being made of 'pure evil' would most certainly explain Michael's incredible survival skills. Here is a list of the ways he has 'died' throughout the Halloween films...
In Halloween (1978), Michael gets a full revolver of bullets in the chest and falls from a second story window.
In Halloween II (1981), Michael gets shot 8 times, including once in each eyeball, and then blown to smithereens via oxygen and ether tanks in Haddonfield Memorial Hospital.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) features a practical firing squad as Michael receives a barrage of bullets, from both rifles and shotguns, and falls into a mine shaft. Law enforcement toss some dynamite into the shaft along with him in an attempt to finish him.
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) presents Michael's elaborate survival of the previous film's 'dynamite ending' (pun intended), and showcases Michael's building strength strength.
In Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Michael is injected with a solution that is revealed to be a tranquilizer and then beat with a pipe. He still escapes.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) brings back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, who crushes her brother against a tree with an ambulance and decapitates him with an axe. However, this was apparently not Michael (as revealed in Resurrection, 2002).
In Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Michael suffers an electrocution. He is also lit on fire.
Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007), the slasher gets shot multiple times, stabbed in the chest, falls from a second story window (like the first film) and then gets shot in the face. He survives.
And Rob Zombie's sequel, Halloween II (2009), Michael was stabbed many times with a butcher knife, wounds both in the chest and face. Despite this film depicting him dead, he always seems to escape somehow.
Michael always seems to surprise fans. No matter how many ways they have tried to kill him, he appears to have infinite strength and infinite lives. Still, the Danny McBride 2018 rewrite frames a mortal, much more human slasher. McBride has explained that the Halloween franchise has gotten too corny and that it deserves to reboot, back to the original Carpenter-style horror it was in 1978. Carpenter must agree, as he is listed as the lead producer on the 2018 Halloween remake. In fact, Michael Myers has been made out to be much more vulnerable than ever before in the upcoming film.
In short, in the upcoming 2018 Halloween movie, Michael Myers is no longer immortal!